Author Archives: somethingsomethingsharepoint

About somethingsomethingsharepoint

A SharePoint dev for Intergen, a blog about my various discoveries and more interesting things during my work days.

PowerShell – Automatically Download Large files via SFTP

Posted on May 17, 2014 by somethingsomethingsharepoint

Recently I had a requirement to download large binary files automatically over SFTP so I turned to PowerShell as a scheduled task and came up with this solution. I had filters in place to make sure I was downloading the … Continue reading →

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ASP.Net Grouped Drop Down List Items – No Web.Config edits

Posted on September 17, 2013 by somethingsomethingsharepoint

I encountered a problem recently where I needed to group asp.net drop down items but I wasn’t allowed to modify the web.config file. This ruled out most of the ways I knew how to do it, so I came up … Continue reading →

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Remove Title Field

Posted on September 8, 2013 by somethingsomethingsharepoint

We have had a requirement (on more than one occasion) to remove the title field as a required field from a list based on a custom content type. All attempts to remove the title field declarative while still inheriting from … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2013 – Schema contain wrong field name

Posted on September 8, 2013 by somethingsomethingsharepoint

This little error is a beauty. It wasted a decent hour of my time this morning getting to the bottom of it. I am in the process of migrating a bunch of existing site columns, content types and lists into … Continue reading →

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TestDriven.Net in SharePoint Integration Tests

Posted on September 2, 2013 by somethingsomethingsharepoint

I installed TestDriven.Net onto my development environment as I find it to be the best test runner I’ve used and my co worker was confused as every time they had used it since SP 2010 they had come across this … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2013 – Expired SQL Server Instance

Posted on September 2, 2013 by somethingsomethingsharepoint

Today I ran into an issue with a demo box that I had used many times before. The SQL Server 2012 install had been installed using an evaluation licence and it had expired. Sharepoint was dead. The Standard fix for … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) NewForm, DispForm, EditForm reset to default shows blank

Posted on July 13, 2013 by somethingsomethingsharepoint

The other day I was asked to assist a client with a SharePoint 2007 site. As part of this site they had removed the web parts from New, Disp and Edit forms so that the end users could not access … Continue reading →

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Dynamically generating Word 2010 documents using OpenXml and Content Controls

Posted on March 10, 2012 by somethingsomethingsharepoint

I was recently asked to write a Word 2010 Document Generator for a client where they had multiple text fields that needed to be dynamically filled with data from within SharePoint. I settled on using OpenXML (found here:  http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5124) for … Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on March 10, 2012 by somethingsomethingsharepoint

Welcome to my blog. I will post my various discoveries in .net and SharePoint 2007\2010. I am primarily a .net developer with an interest in SharePoint, JQuery and bespoke development.

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